Adobe Firefly is behind numerous key Photoshop updates – however a key change for the photograph modifying big in 2025 is the power to decide on third-party AI fashions. Photoshop now permits customers to make use of Nano Bana Professional or Flux.2 AI picture mills as a substitute of its personal Firefly for Generative Fill. However that, after all, begs the query – when ought to photograph editors use a third-party AI mannequin?
I directed precisely that query to not only a Photoshop professional however Adobe Photoshop’s Senior Director of Product Administration, Stephen Nielsen. Right here’s when (and why) photograph editors could wish to strive a third-party AI.
Adobe Firefly
Finest for: Commercially-safe AI
Adobe Firefly has a key characteristic for creators: it’s constructed on licensed content material, not images scraped from the web. That makes Firefly protected for industrial use, Adobe says.
Firefly is the safer selection – and the extra moral choice for creatives, as many generative AI platforms don’t share the place the coaching information comes from. There are a variety of lawsuits and authorized questions surrounding AI and what constitutes truthful use for coaching information.
Photoshop’s third-party AI fashions are additionally thought-about a premium generative AI characteristic, whereas Firefly is taken into account an ordinary characteristic. That signifies that, relying on what subscription you will have, you could have to buy further generative credit to make use of the third-party fashions, the place some normal generative credit are included in some Adobe Images plans.
Nano Banana and Nano Banana Professional
Finest for: Legible textual content and indicators, understanding directions
AI picture mills are notoriously unhealthy a producing textual content, however Google’s Nano Banana Professional exhibits vital enchancment. For editors who have to generate textual content, Nano Banana could spit out essentially the most usable choices.
Nano Banana Professional can be in a position to perceive directions. Firefly wasn’t constructed to make use of instruction verbs like “change this to that” within the immediate, so utilizing these varieties of prompts can introduce unintended errors. Editors utilizing prompts with instruction verbs could wish to experiment with Nano Banana inside Photoshop.
Flux.1 and Flux.2
Finest for: Realism, sustaining picture “identification,” understanding directions
Black Forest Lab’s Flux AI fashions are recognized for realism, and that may prolong into Photoshop’s Generative Fill. Editors may wish to experiment with the Flux fashions for sustaining “identification” or protecting extra of the unique intact and staying consistent with the unique picture.
Like Nano Banana Professional, Flux fashions’ coaching permits them to deal with instruction verbs within the immediate higher than Firefly at occasions.
Presently, third-party AI fashions are solely accessible in Generative Fill inside Photoshop. Third-party fashions can be found by utilizing the drop-down menu subsequent to the immediate textual content field within the Contextual Job Bar. Third-party AI mannequin help was launched in October 2026, and a software program replace is required for these operating older variations of the software program.
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